Sun Jing, Guo Yan, Scarlat Marius M, Lv Guang, Yang Xiong-Gang, Hu Yong-Cheng
Editorial Office of Orthopaedic Surgery, Tianjin Hospital, Tianjin, China.
Tianjin Hospital, Tianjin, China.
Int Orthop. 2018 Mar;42(3):461-468. doi: 10.1007/s00264-018-3828-8. Epub 2018 Feb 20.
We aimed to investigate the status quo of orthopaedic publications from China and characterize the most-cited articles to provide valuable insights for orthopaedists.
PubMed and Embase databases were used to search for Chinese orthopaedic publications from 1997 to 2017 to determine the growing pattern of Chinese research globally. Then Web of Science database was searched for articles with most citations in all journals included in the Journal Citation Report 2016 under the category of "orthopaedics" for the last five years, and the total numbers of articles in the last three respective years were also analyzed.
The number of publications published in PubMed and Embase during the last 20 years ranged from 218 to 6836, and year 2002 had the biggest growth rate of 59.15% and 2014 had the biggest growth value of 1203, comparing with previous years. Fifty-three articles were selected as the most-cited ones for the last five years. European Spine Journal and West China Hospital are the journal and institution that published the most high-impact articles. Majority of the articles (47%) were meta-analysis, and 6 RCTs were identified in a total of 11 clinical articles. Most high-cited clinical articles or meta-analyses were classified as level of evidence of I (41.67%).A total of 1238 articles, 1264 articles, and 1225 articles in the field of orthopedics from China were included in SCI for the last three years.
The Chinese orthopaedic research grew rapidly in terms of number of publications in the last decades, and the quality of publications also improved in recent years.
我们旨在调查中国骨科领域出版物的现状，并对被引用次数最多的文章进行特征分析，为骨科医生提供有价值的见解。
利用PubMed和Embase数据库检索1997年至2017年中国骨科领域的出版物，以确定中国研究在全球的增长模式。然后在Web of Science数据库中检索2016年《期刊引证报告》中“骨科”类别下过去五年被引用次数最多的文章，并分析过去三年各自的文章总数。
过去20年在PubMed和Embase上发表的文章数量在218至6836篇之间，与前几年相比，2002年的增长率最高，为59.15%，2014年的增长值最大，为1203篇。53篇文章被选为过去五年被引用次数最多的文章。《欧洲脊柱杂志》和华西医院是发表高影响力文章最多的期刊和机构。大多数文章（47%）为荟萃分析，在总共11篇临床文章中确定了6项随机对照试验。大多数被引用次数多的临床文章或荟萃分析被归类为证据等级I（41.67%）。过去三年中国骨科领域共有1238篇、1264篇和1225篇文章被SCI收录。
在过去几十年中，中国骨科研究在出版物数量方面增长迅速，近年来出版物质量也有所提高。
